Both regular employment and advancement ... "Poverty chain" approaching a newcomer child

Mohammad Mahdi (19), a second-year student attending Osaka Prefectural / Manamihaya Kadoma High School. Before that, there is a wall of “course”. It is a systemic barrier that stands only in front of children with foreign roots. The natural hope of “learning and getting a stable job” is in a situation where there is no prospect of fulfilling it.

“I can't change my visa. I don't know the rules. I don't have money to go to college,” Mahdi says. Why has it fallen into a situation like Happo?

"To Japan for a good future"

Mahdi's family is from Afghanistan. Mahdi was born and raised in Dubai, the Middle East, where he escaped from the war-torn country and moved there.

I came to Japan in 2015. My father, who runs a used car sales business, told me why he moved to Japan.

"Going to Japan for a good future for children"

Mahdi, who came to Japan at the age of 15, was unable to attend junior high school. This is because the local governments that were inhabited at that time allowed admission to junior high school only at “school age”.

I didn't understand Japanese at all and spent about a year alone without any contact with society. I finally learned at night junior high school that my father's acquaintance introduced me, and I went to high school at 18 years old all year.

While helping my father's work in Japan, eventually I want to do my own business. Having an educational opportunity, Mr. Mahdi finally has a dream in the future.

However, various systems are preventing Mahadi's dream from being realized.

First, “Visa Wall…